I like writing strong women, because as a straight male, there's nothing more attractive to me than a strong girl.

I count absolutely no chickens before they're hatched. In fact, I assume they're all dead in their shells, inside their eggs.

It's something I want to do going forward - make a movie that is commercial and universal and will play in any movie theater or living room in the States or the UK, but is definitively Canadian. I don't think there's such a thing as prohibitively Canadian.

If you want to make god laugh, make a plan.

I'm a chronic ad-libber. So whoever hires me, often to their chagrin, should know that I will be talking a bunch of smack.

In the best-case scenario, the audience sees themselves in your shoes. The only way you can do that is if you try to play it as if it was happening to you.

Long before I ever started acting, believe it or not, I always knew I wanted to be a director.